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| Aerial Performance Prep Program Six Week Program Sundays 10:00 am - Noon Drop-Ins Welcome any week during the program Co-ed |
| Join us for this six-week program that focuses on preparing for an aerial performance. Each week we will focus on a specific aspect of a performance to help you create, build, market and prepare yourself to perform. Instructors for this program are all influential aerial performers who love sharing their knowledge. Who can participate? We have three types of aerialists in mind for this program. * You are currently working on a routine for yourself or an actual performance that you would like some help with from our guest instructors. We expect that most of you are amateur aerialist. * You want to team up with one to five other aerialists to perform during Poletential's AirShow on December 3, 2011. You don't need to have partners...we will team you up! Or, if you already have a partner or group, that works too. * You may want to perform in the future! Pre-requisites * An aerial repertoire of tricks, transitions and dance that can be used for a performance. The amount of the repertoire can determine the length of the routine, so we welcome those with a small repertoire. * A piece of music or performance character that you would like to use. Apparatus * Poletential has silk, hammock and corde lisse. * If you would like to mount your own, single point apparatus, please contact ck@poletential.com. Can you Drop-In? Yes. While we would love everyone to participate in all six weeks of the program. We do offer drop-ins for any of the weeks on the schedule. |
FOCUS: Musicality and Ending Your Performance Your instructor will give you examples, tips and techniques. She will work with each student/group on specifics to their musicality and ending. You will have a group warm-up and then time to work on your routine. Instructor: Kerri Kresinski Pre-requisite: A planned performance ending if you are working on a routine |
FOCUS: Getting through the block, working through your weakest moves, recovering through a mistake and performance mishaps. Arielle will give you examples, tips and techniques. Sarah will take some Q&A. You will have a group warm-up and then time to work on your routine while Arielle and Sarah give you individual attention. Instructors: Arielle Rabier and Sarah Stoler |
FOCUS: Seeking performance opportunities, resumes, venues etc. Arwen will give you examples, tips and techniques. You will have a group warm-up and then time to work on your routine while Arwen gives you individual attention. Instructors: Arwen Anderson |
| Instructors |
| Arielle Rabier is passionate about the freedom of self expression through performance art. She began dancing at age six and has studied ballet, jazz, hip hop, hula hoop dancing and aerial silk. Arielle began studying aerial arts in 2009 at the San Francisco Circus Center and became a performer in 2010. She has eighteen years of performance experience, including performances at the Ton of Sand festival, The Cellspace and as a guest aerialist at Ayako's School of Ballet. Arielle has taught ballet, gymnastics and the fluid interpretation of hula hoop dancing; she enjoys giving others the tools to express themselves through performance art as well. |
| Thus far in 2011, Sarah Romanosky has been a featured aerialist in the Superbowl Chevy commercial “See the USA” featuring the cast of Glee, was an aerialist for the official Grammys party during the performances of The Roots & Keri Hilson, & has been seen in the air at Supperclub, Roxbury, Music Box, Spot 5750, & Boulevard 3. During the holidays, Sarah performed aerial silks alongside pop singer Kaci Brown, & performed above the crowd for Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy release party. In 2010, Sarah was an aerial soloist in Mental Head Circus, Girl Next Door & the Lester Horton Awards. She also performed above the rooftop pool of the London Hotel for E Entertainment’s 20th anniversary, featuring Kelly Rowland. In recent years, Sarah has been an aerialist alongside DJ Bob Sinclar in Santo Domingo, as well as for Christian Audigier, in an event featuring Snoop Dogg, Fergie & Michael Jackson |
| Jennifer Alvarado, who performs by the stage name Jem has been living and playing in the Bay Area since birth. Blessed with a radiant and ready smile and constant drive to learn and experience new things, Jem has a diverse background of interests and abilities. She has been a practitioner of yoga for 10 years and became certified in Bhakti Vinyasa yoga in 2006 and is now teaching yoga in various studios in the Bay area. Jem is an active performance artist in multiple disciplines including aerial fabric, acro-yoga, hula-hooping, prop manipulation, and fire dancing for many years. Some of Jem's performances include flying with the fabric at 40 feet while hanging from Dan Das Man’s massive metal Burning Man sculpture at Ton of Sand, decending from redwood trees at the Monte Rio Music Festival, Inside the Nexus dome at Burningman 2011. Her goal is to unite community through fun, playful movement and healthy creative expression. |
| Sarah Starlight I am a interdisciplinary artist who works in bridging multiple disciplines, including visual art, performance art, installation, film, costume design, prop manipulation, dance, and yoga. I have been teaching visual art for 10+ years and currently teach drawing and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Hoop, fire, and aerial silks are my primary focus in circus based arts and I perform regularly across the Bay Area. I am also teach Vinyasa Flow yoga. www.sarahstarlight.com Photo by Jeff Medinas |
| Arwen Anderson is a San Francisco based Actor/Aerialist/Musician. She has been seen on almost all of the stages in the Bay Area, including American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Magic Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Marines Memorial Theatre, Brava! For Women in the Arts, Word for Word Performing Arts Company, Encore Theatre Company and Climate Theatre. Most recently, she was seen in three back to back world premieres: Love in American Times at San Jose Rep, The Verona Project at CalShakes and Bellwether at Marin Theatre Company. Arwen is also a professional aerialist and has performed all over the bay area. Favorite gigs include: Doubles Trapeze with San Francisco's own beloved New Pickle Circus, Aerial Silk in various trees (yes, trees!) and Single Point Trapeze for Bill Pullman’s Expedition 6 at the Magic Theatre. Arwen graduated with degrees in Theatre and Psychology from Wesleyan University, performs locally as a singer/songwriter, trains and teaches aerial silk and trapeze at the Circus Center of San Francisco and is one half of the doubles trapeze duo Zwillinge. |
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| Sweet Sixteen,” and she is a co-founder and performer in San Francisco’s world-class, home grown group, Sweet Can Circus. Kerri expresses her passion, spirit, and emotion through movement, and feels that the body is the gateway to the higher powers for healing, transformation and expression. She has been teaching acrobatics, yoga, dance, and aerial arts for over 10 years, and loves to help people reach beyond their limits and strive for new heights. You can find Kerri at www.skysiren.com andwww.sweetcanproductions.com |